Job 38:12
In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
In Context
11and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?
13that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
Cross References
Job 8:9For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
Job 24:16In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.
Job 38:21Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!
Psalms 136:7He made the great lights—His loving devotion endures forever.
Luke 1:78because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the Dawn has visited us from on high,
Matthew Henry on Job 38:5-12
The Creation of the World. ( b. c. 1520.) 4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. 5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? 6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; 7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? 8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? 9 When I made the… Read the whole commentary →